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james016
Doesn't have much of a life
Joined: Tue May 05, 2009 5:52 pm
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http://www.michaelv.org/Old School. Minesweeper works on here.
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AlunD
Site Admin
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:12 am
Posts: 7011
Location: Wiltshire
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l3v1ck
What's a life?
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 10:21 am
Posts: 12700
Location: The Right Side of the Pennines (metaphorically & geographically)
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Why?............Just why?
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veato
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 7:17 am
Posts: 5550
Location: Nottingham
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Windows 3.11 was my first OS. Well that and DOS 6.22 which i spent most of my time launching games from.
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rustybucket
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Jun 18, 2009 5:10 pm
Posts: 5836
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Yay! Nostalgia FTW!  _________________Jim
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JJW009
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:58 pm
Posts: 8767
Location: behind the sofa
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It's brilliant, the attention to detail and the depth is just so nerdy! You can actually open a DOS prompt, change directory and see the files. Even MediaPlayer has stuff to play  _________________jonbwfc's law: "In any forum thread someone will, no matter what the subject, mention Firefly." When you're feeling too silly for x404, youRwired.net
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cloaked_wolf
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:46 pm
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I had win95 and DOS 7. Used to enjoy maximising the free memory out of the base 640k. I managed to edit autoexec.bat and config.sys enough so memmaker got me 632k of base memory free. Which was awesome because there was one silly game which needed 630k. Can't remember which game it was now. I was slightly disappointed when I tried but failed to read the quotes.txt file. Or maybe I've forgotten the old commands? _________________ He fights for the users.
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JJW009
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:58 pm
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Location: behind the sofa
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It's a very very cut down command prompt. You need to open Notepad to read the quotes: _________________jonbwfc's law: "In any forum thread someone will, no matter what the subject, mention Firefly." When you're feeling too silly for x404, youRwired.net
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big_D
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:25 pm
Posts: 10691
Location: Bramsche
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My first MS OS was MS-DOS 2.1, a pile of poo, but at least they had introduced hierarchical directories by then! MS-DOS 1.0 was a flat file system. Can you image Windows XP or Windows 7, today, with only the root directory? Naja, can you imagine trying to boot Windows 7 from 130KB floppy disks? My first operating system exposure was DEC VMS in 1980.
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EddArmitage
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:40 pm
Posts: 5288
Location: ln -s /London ~
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We were still running that on the big steel mill control rigs last year!
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big_D
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:25 pm
Posts: 10691
Location: Bramsche
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Don't knock it, it is a lovely OS. I much prefer it to UNIX.
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John_Vella
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 7:55 am
Posts: 7935
Location: Manchester.
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How sad is this...? I tried the Internet Browser on the Windows 3.1 page, and this is the first site I visited! Oh, and it works!  _________________John Vella BSc (Hons), PGCE - Still the official forum prankster and crude remarker  Sorry  I'll behave now. Promise 
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trigen_killer
Doesn't have much of a life
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:37 pm
Posts: 835
Location: North Wales UK
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Meh!
See sig' I've still got a working PC with DOS/3.11 installed and ready to go (in my garage)
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